The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-02-05
THE MATTHEW'S CASE
CALLS UP THE QUESTION OF THE
sENATE's DICTATORSHIP,
And Recalls the Conduct OF Andrew
Jackson. the IrrepressibIe and
IrreeOncilabIe.

IrreeOncilabIe.
New YORK, February 2.-The Her
aids Washington correspondent say
the resolution OF Senator Hoar, re
Gently referred 10 the Committee OIL
Privileges and Elect ons, recites that i
is contrary to the spirit and interest o
the constitution to designate the cant
person to the same office Immediately
after the Senate has received and re
fused its advice and consent to such
appointment. This resolution grew
out OF the act OF the President in send
ing the name OF Mr.. Matthews to the
Senate as Recorder OF Deeds for the
District of Columbia after he had been
rejected by the Senate last session.
The National Inteiligencer OF July 25
1882, in an editorial headed appoint
ments by the President" (Jac6son),
gives the history OF case which has
some analogous features TO that OF
Recorder Matthews. samuel Groin
to be Register OF the Land Office for
the district OF lands subject to sale at
Mount Salus, In the State OF Missis-
sippi," was nomination sent by Pres
ident Jackson to the United States
Senate in July, 1882. The IntelLigencsr
said:
"Of all the arbitrary acts OF Gen.
Jackson since he became President
this is perhaps the boldest, the most
nwarrantable in itself and the most
insulting to the Senatorial body"
The preceding December the Senats
had refused to confirm the nomination
OF Samuel Groin to the Office named
by vote Of 26 nays to ID yeas.
On June IL, 1882, President Jackson
renominated Groin for the same Office,
and said in his message to the Senate
that he did 30 In compliance with the
request of a number OF the most re-
spectacle citizens of the State OF Mis-
sissippi, and with that of one OF the
Senators from the same State, and the
letters making the request were for
warded to the Senats with the nomi-
nation.
CHANCE TO REPENT.
President Jackson a so said in his
message that being further possessed
OF personal knowledge OF Mr.. Groin's
integrity and fitness and OF the claims
which his faithful and patriotic SER
vices gave him upon the government,
"he deemed it an act Of Justice to NOM
mate him again, not doubling that the
Senate will embrace with cheerfulnees
an opportunity with fuller informa-
ton to reconsider their former vote
upon his nomination"
1.-THE message was read" says the
executive journal of the Senate, ex-
racts from which upon this subj cot
he InieiRgencer reprinted, land on
notion OF Mr.. Webster it was ordered
hat it lie upon the table and bs
printed in confidence for the use Of
he Senate"
This was on June l1tb, and
he following day the Senate pro-
,eeded to consider the message, and 1t
was laid on the table by a vote Of
n to IL,
The Senate had, during the session |
II 1830-3l, passed resolution,
BY vote Of % yeas to 10 nays, "that |
Il was inexpedient to appoint citizen
Of any one State to an Office In another
State in which such citizen does not
reside, without some evident necessity
'or such appointment" and the Lateli-
yencer, in stating this fact, said that,
in spite of this declared opinion OF |
he Senate, the Executive had, at the
lext session, nominated Tor the above
FAMED Office, Samuel Groin, a clerk in
he Postofiice Department, who had
,een, short time previous to the
Meeting OF Congress, appointed by the
resident to fill the office to which he |
vas then nominated"
On July 10, 1882, the Senate con.
idered the following motion of Mr..
'oindexter: "Resolved, That the Presi-
lent oil the United States be informed |
hat ii is not the intention OF the Sem
Ito to take any proceedings on the re-
Of Samuel Groin TO be
Register Of the Land Office at Mount
,alus, in Mississippi, during the pres
mt session." and 1t was ordered that
be above resolution lie on the table
md the injunction OF secrecy be re-.
moved therefrom and from all the pro.
'eedings Of the Senate on the nomina-
ion OF Samuel Groin.
NOT SCARED by THE SENATE,
The htelliOencer quoted from the
Telegraph the information that "this
course WAS adopted at the instance OF
. friend OF the President, with an un.
Outstanding that he should be advised
70 withdraw tho nomination aud nomi-
nate some other individual" 1t was
subsequently, stated in the Senate that
The President had declared that he
lever would nominate to the Office "a
,itIzen OF Mississippi"
But" continues the Inielligencer,
this was not all. On the last night
II the session, when bare majority |
,nly of Senators were in attendance,
Nessrs. Webster, Holmes and Sprague
having left the city, an attempt was
made to get this nomination taken up
md acted upon. The attempt, after
he explicit understanding that IL had
been laid on the table as a quietus to
I, produced so great and general a
sensation Of Interpretation among the
Senators, without respect |
% parties, that the mover was Obliged |
% withdraw his motion. After these
repeated reflections by the Senate we
now learn, with surprise hardly to
De expressed by words, that the
moment the Senators had turned their
backs Gen. Jackson reappoints this
lame rejected person to the same Of.
lea"
President Jackson took the course